Broadcast seeding-machine.



No. 874,887. PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

P. J. FELDT.

BROADCAST SEBDING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 12.1906.

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FERDINAND .I. FELDT, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

BROADCAST SEEDING-MACHINE.

ful Improvements in Broadcast Seeding- Machines; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to certain new and useful improvements inbroadcast seeding machines, and relates particularly to the meansemployed for the transmission,

of motion from a driving shaft adapted to operate suitable seedingdevices within a hopper, and to distributers suitably disposed toreceive material from the said hopper and to distribute the samebroadcast over the ground.

The invention consists essentially of a hopper having one or moredischarge spouts leading therefrom and the same supported from asuitable support such as the end-gate of a Wagon; a driving shaft adated to operate suitable seeding devices witliin the hopper; one or moredistributer shafts on which are carried distributing fans disposedbeneath the said spout or spouts to receive material dischargedtherefrom; a countershaft extending parallel with the driving shaft;spur gears connecting the driving and counter-shafts; and spiral gearsconnecting the counter-shafts and said distributer shaft or shafts, saidspiral gears rovided with teeth which extend diagona ly across the facesthereof, the teeth of the opposite gears extending diagonally acrosstheir faces in opposite directions to each other.

For a further and full description of the invention herein and themerits thereof, and also to acquire a-knowledge of the details ofconstruction of the means for effecting the results, reference is had tothe following description and the drawings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention aresusceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of theinvention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lis a view from the rear in eleva tion of so much of a broadcastdistributing machine as will illustrate my improvements which areattached thereto; Fig. 2 is a side elevation looking at the left handside of Fig.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Application filed March 12, 1906. Serial No. 305,578.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907.

1, with the distributer omitted, and Fig. 3 is a detail in sideelevation of the spiral gears on the counter-shaft in mesh with thespiral pinion on a distributer shaft.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout thefigures.

In the drawings I have shown my invention as applied to a double fandistributer, necessitating two distributing shafts and duplicate meanson a driving shaft which 00- operates therewith for actuating the saiddistributer. However, it is understood that the mechanism herein shownand described is equally as applicable to a single distributer seedingmachine as it is to a double fan distributer. In the drawings I havealso illustrated a preferred form of hopper and connections therewith,and a preferred form of distributer, yet it is to be understood that thedevices which I claim as my improvement may be applied to other forms ofmachines than that here shown.

In the drawings 1 denotes a support for the seeding devices which ispreferably an endgate of a wagon, which is of the usual type and adaptedto have a detachable connection with the rear end of a suitable vehicle.

2 refers to a hopper support in which is adapted to be carried suitableseeding devices (not shown) which may be of the usual force feed type orother suitable feeding means, and 3 denotes a hopper extending up fromand supported by the said hopper suport.

p The feeding devices to which reference has been made, but not shown,are adapted to be actuated by a longitudinal driving shaft 4 whichpasses through the hopper support 2 and is journaled in the bearingplates 5 attached thereto; The driving shaft 4 is adapted, whenattaching the seeding devices to the vehicle, to be driven throughsuitable connection with one of the ground wheels of the vehicle, or thesame may be driven in any other desirable or convenient manner.

Depending and diverging from the hopper support 2 and communicating withthe feed-- disposed distributer shafts, the lower ends of which passthrough the shield 7 and are j ournaled in the bearings 9 supported bythe said shield. The upper ends of the said shafts pass through thebearings 10 which project laterally from and are supported by the arms11 which extend outwardly from the lower opposite sides of the hoppersupport 2. On the lower ends of the shafts beneath the shield 7 arecarried the fan distributers 12, which are so disposed beneath theshield as to receive any material which may be discharged through theshield from the spouts 6, while on the extreme upper ends of the saidshafts are carried spiral gears 13 that is, they are of the same form asthe ordinary spur gears, but the teeth extend diagonally across thefaces thereof.

14 denotes a longitudinally disposed counter-shaft, which may be carriedat the rear of or through the hopper support, which will serve as abearing therefor and the shaft also is journaled in a bracket 15attached to and projecting from the support or end-gate 1.

16 is a spur pinion carried by the shaft 14 which is continuously inmesh with a spur gear 17 carried on the driving shaft 4, through and bymeans of which the power which is transmitted to the shaft 4 will beimparted to the counter-shaft 14.

Carried by the counter-shaft 14 is a pair .of spiral gears 18, the teethof which are similar to the pinions 13, and said pinions 13 and gears 18are continuously in mesh for the purpose of transmitting power from thecounter-shaft 4 to the distributer shafts 8 for the rotation of thedistributers thereon. The gears 18 and pinions 13 are disposedapproximately at right angles to each other, and the teeth of each ofsaid spiral pinions and their intermeshing gears, while disposed diago-Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is

In a device of the class described, a supporting member, a combinedshield and bracket extending laterally from said supporting member, ahopper support having a hopper extending from one end and feed spoutsdepending from the other end and connected to said shield and bracket, adrive shaft and a counter shaft journaled through said hopper supportand spaced apart, arms extending from said hopper support, hangersconnected to said arms and provided with vertical shaft bearings intheir free ends, shaft bearings carried by said shield and bracket invertical alinement with the bearings of said hangers, vertical shaftscarried by said shield and bracket and by said hanger bearings,distributer devices carried by the lower ends of said vertical shafts,means for communicating the motion of said drive shaft to said countershaft, and means for transmitting the motion from said counter shaft tosaid vertical shafts.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

FERDINAND J. FELDT.

Witnesses CHAS. W. LA PORTE, RoB'r. N. MCCORMICK.

